April 21

"Extreme justice is often injustice."

Jean Racine
(12/22/1639 – 04/21/1699)
French writer ("Andromaque")

"Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition."

Charlotte Brontë
(04/21/1816 – 03/31/1855)
English writer ("Jane Eyre")
(sister of Anne and Emily Brontë)

"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."

Josh Billings
(04/21/1818 – 10/14/1885)
US writer ("Alminax")

"There are four varieties in society; the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest."

Hippolyte Taine
(04/21/1828 – 03/05/1893)
French historian ("Les Origines de la France Contemporaine")

"And surely all God's people, however serious and savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes, all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them."

John Muir
(04/21/1838 – 12/24/1914)
Scottish naturalist ("A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf")

"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also, you will have betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution."

Rollo May
(04/21/1909 – 10/22/1994)
US psychologist ("Love and Will")

"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."

Mark Twain
(11/30/1835 – 04/21/1910)
US writer ("Life on the Mississippi")

"The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors."

Sir John Mortimer
(04/21/1923 – 01/16/2009)
English barrister, writer ("Rumpole of the Bailey")

"When we grow old, there can only be one regret—not to have given enough of ourselves."

Eleonora Duse
(10/03/1858 – 04/21/1924)
Italian actor ("Cenere")

"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night."

Marie Corelli
(05/01/1855 – 04/21/1924)
English writer ("A Romance of Two Worlds")

"They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt."

Queen Elizabeth II
(04/21/1926 – )
English royalty , on Princess Margaret's children
(married to Prince Philip, mother with him of Prince Charles)

"Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera circle his blondined head like a sparrow looking for a place to deposit its droppings."

Robert Brustein
(04/21/1927 – )
US educator, critic ("The Theatre of Revolt: An Approach to Modern Drama")

"For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature."

Robert Bridges
(10/23/1844 – 04/21/1930)
English writer ("Eros and Psyche")

"Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."

John Maynard Keynes
(06/05/1883 – 04/21/1946)
English mathematician, economist ("The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money")

"Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beer cans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist."

Iggy Pop
(04/21/1947 – )
US singer ("The Passenger")

"One swallow does not make a summer,
but one skein of geese,
cleaving the murk of March thaw,
is the Spring."

Aldo Leopold
(01/11/1887 – 04/21/1948)
US conservationist ("A Sand County Almanac")

"The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch, and one on the throttle."

Bob Varsha
(04/21/1951 – )
US sports commentator , on Formula One racers

"In my next life, I'd like to come back five foot, two inches, with the best ass and tits you've ever seen."

Andie MacDowell
(04/21/1958 – )
US actor ("Sex, Lies, and Videotape")

"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand."

Sir Edward Appleton
(09/06/1892 – 04/21/1965)
English physicist

"My childhood was held together with Araldite."

Tamsin Bowles
(04/21/1968 – )
English Weatherpixie-maker and friend of the quotekeeper

"I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings." *

Edith Starrett Green
(01/17/1910 – 04/21/1987)
US Rep (OR)

"Once you've had chemotherapy, there's no such thing as a bad-hair day."

Elizabeth Tilberis
(09/07/1947 – 04/21/1999)
US editor (Harper's Bazaar)

"Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was."

Nina Simone
(02/21/1933 – 04/21/2003)
US singer ("Mississippi Goddam")

"Like books and black lives, albums still matter."

Prince
(06/07/1958 – 04/21/2016)
US singer/songwriter ("1999")